The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-07-01

legs were quite bare A FRENCH FASHION.
just where they are most tender-at the knees
The morning was SO raw and cold that gen.
tlemen wore spring overcoats and ladies
shivered in their March jackets. Yet this
little creature braved it through without
fiber on his knees. inviting the rheumatism
and other foes to health which lurk sometimes
in this raw air. His mother accompanied
him in fur trimmed wrap. The contrast
between the upper and lower half of him was
painful. His body and head, where the greater
part of the heat in him naturally held court,
were clad as for December. He made me
think Of the woman who goes out in paper
soled shoes in the snowiesG and coldest
weather, and thinks herself prepared against
taking cold because she hugs fur muff close
to the pit of her stomach. Such is the wisdom
of our civilization.
This style OF dressing prevails in Paris in
the summer; but surely no mother who
values the future health of her child and re-
alizes the dangers of the climate would mako
use Of it here. The pretty, half naked boy
excited the pity of everybody in the car. If
the fashion writers-nlay heaven enlighten
some of theln--fail it is in telling what not
TO wear I say emphaticaily, Don't put
your little children in socks. The little
babies are in for a tussle with the elements
this summer, too. Their blessed little frocks
are made with low necks and short sleeves,
quite as they were twenty-five years ago.
t The prettiest white dress in the world is
made of white China or india silk. It's dra-
perry falls with most dreamy grace. It
washes, too, beautifully. Yes, and it costs
beautifully, too. But how well it shows off
shirringt sryfss-9 .,-s..fti9 ,tt
as IT
And that reminds me of two nightgowns
which / saw at my dressmakers They were
of good white srrah, shirred all over the
shoulders. Each one contained fifteen yards
of surah, which with $40 for the making
brought them up to $25 apiece in cost, to say
nothing of the little matter of laundrying
week in and week out. They were beautiful
enough for a neglige, but that was not to be
their mission. They were to have purely
nocturnal career. For nightgowns were
they intended from the beginning. Mrs.
Boucicault wife of the eminent Dion, was
their owner. ID a8 f.s.s &sss
A lady who saw them at the same time
did exclaimed against such extravaganza.
Another said: "You are quite as extrava-
CANT in your way. What you want yoE buy.
You have home. You own yonr house.
You fill it with rich furniture and costly art
treasures. But actresses lave usually neither
homes nor time to live in them They work
and earn money Let them spend it in silk
nightgowns, il they want to, without re-
brlke. Let US all be happy in our own way"
To which silently said, @Amen."
In the effort to be beautiful, women turn
as naturally TO cosmetics as a sunfower docs
to the sun. They have not yet Travelled far
enough on the road to true wisdom to know
that beauty comes not from without, but
from within. Cosmetics they must and viii
have, though the -four barrel be empty and
the shoemaker idle. Well, believe in them
TO certain extent Not in the various white
washes, powders, paints, pastes and other
horrors with which my deluded. sisters cover
their faces, under the hailucination that they
are anaking themselves attractive" The
creed OF my toilet IS, not to try TO plaster
over defects, but abolish them. Don't be